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รวบรวมข้อมูลได้น่าสนใจ แต่หากใครต้องการอยากรู้รายละเอียดเกี่ยวกับประเภทของกระดาษ ความหนา ขนาดกระดาษ ร้านกระดาษ หรืออะไรเหล่านี้ก็จะไม่ได้ความรู้ไปหรอกนะ เพราะในเล่มนี้เน้นที่กระดาษที่กลายมาเป็นสิ่งสำคัญต่างๆในวัฒนธรรมมนุษย์ เช่น แผนที่ ธนบัตร หนังสือ เกม อะไรทำนองนั้นน่ะนะ แต่โดยรวมก็เห็นความตั้งใจค Leggi tutto

This is the sort of book my wife rolls her eyes at when I bring it home. "Really Ed, a book about paper?" Yes, a book about paper. A fascinating and entertaining mix of cultural studies, history, and personal reflection on the indispensableness of paper.

In contrast to a couple of similar books I've read in the past few months (see my goodreads feed), THIS was a first-rate book on the culture of paper and its total embeddedness in our way of life. Ian Sansom is a brilliantly elegant writer, moving effortlessly from erudite to informal in the blink o Leggi tutto

I picked this book because the cover promised a deep incursion into the history of paper and an exercise of imagination related to a world without paper. However, what I got was an eclectic collection of the author's musings on particular topics such as the uses of paper in art, politics etc. Some o Leggi tutto

Bought this because I'm a big paper fan - letters, photos, and all that. I feel bad giving it 2 stars as it's an interesting romp, but it just felt more like a miscellanea, like a coffee table book but without all the nice photos. More of an intriguing collection of tales and facts, than a particula Leggi tutto

Some bits of it was good. Of course, I thought more thought would be about paper and it was to some degree. The first chapter was how paper was made ( in China ) and how it is still made the same process. One chapter was devoted to ' paper money ' and the history of that and then it delves into othe Leggi tutto